m.imdb.com/title/tt9612... I am reminded of this, a bunch of teenagers in 90s Houston/Corpus Christi wanted to LARP a Cyberpunk movie.
I have access to it if you’re interested
Fuck you I almost resemble that (ok I’m not quite there yet but I will be)
“The expression on your face says that you’ve been cheated. Well, you’ve been cheated, but not in the way that you think.”
Yep, by definition this is a crisis of leadership. Nobody is coming to “help” us and we have to be the “adults in the room.”
But you’ve got people who think like you everywhere. We’re all over. If we can figure out how to harness that?
We win.
Hey, we live in a post-Dog Police world (I mean the 1990 tv pilot with Adam Sandler and Jeremy Piven).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Pol...
Too soon to recycle this old steamer?
When it’s the goddamn Cato Institute actually publishing studies on “where does your fentanyl come from? Hint it’s not migrants and refugees” and coordinating with the ACLU, I have to stop and think for a second.
What’s weird is that I’m seeing some of those old coalitions and alignments shuffle and reconfigure themselves before my very eyes.
Yeah the libertarian-fascist pipeline is a real thing, but I’ve seen evidence that a few of them actually believed some of what they were shilling. Just a few, but…
Bombing a well-known sponsor of asymmetrical warfare and violent insurgency is a great idea for a country whose FBI is almost completely engaged in harassing daycares and activist vegans.
Shit is wild
“If you can’t find it at the Flying J Truck Stop on the California/Arizona border it ain’t worth buyin’”
“But if you buy that shit at Buc-Ees in Denton, your ass is gonna be cryin”
Hellno scenario:
State of the Union gets Mars Attack (ack ack ack) ed and the government official they shuffle offsite in case of disaster is Linda fucking McMahon.
I can still conjure nightmares.
Nobody: “I wonder what Reza Pahlavi is up to.”
Revanchist astroturf crew and their media servants: “GEE WHIZ WE CAN SURE BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF TEHRAN AND GIVE THEM MINI-SHAH!”
Sure, fuck the entire theocracy, the Supreme Leader, Guardian Council, Basij, etc, but if you think US involvement will make things better you’re ignoring the last 75 years (at least).
To show you just how half-baked this all is, they’re talking about Reza Pahlavi again, a guy _NOBODY_ asked for.
Aside from all the malfeasance coming from the top and the sloppy stream of paramilitary thugs that ICE is attracting, it’s not so surprising that CBP is making a showing here as brutal authoritarian shitheads. Ever bring the wrong cheese back through customs?
Fuck every one of them.
This Atmospheric River thing reminds me of Mrs GD and I getting our only ever taste of a typhoon, in Tokyo, except that that was steady horizontal rain and this is vertical, and comes and goes a bit.
“But what if this inherently regressive technology produces something it’s fundamentally incapable of doing?”
When will these people just fucking stop
Behold a grown-ass adult beginning to recognize something that was plainly obvious over 40 years ago.
Does this guy truly not know that NY has elected a socialist before? And named a goddamn airport after him?
I get Ned Flanders here is a Shreveport Cockroach who doesn't know shit, but do people (like him) who continue to go off about how this election was "unprecedented" truly not recall that NY has elected an avowed socialist before, and they even named an airport after him?
Oh wait, he was Italian.
That $130 is probably going to go up some no-neck’s nose
We’re way past that friend
That’s an unmarked vehicle, isn’t it? (Can’t see if it has govt plates or not)
C'mon, let's be fair here. They needed someone to fill the "Milquetoast Idiot" void that Thomas Friedman has left in his semi-retirement.
I don't understand why it hasn't been shouted from the rooftops that this "movement" is an astroturf project supported by people like the Heritage Foundation and Peter Thiel (again, do these guys ever sleep)?
Also Ezra Klein: "Got a fat check to endorse this...what's it called, 'Abundance? Sounds like a great idea. Deregulation! Rules are for 70s dinosaur liberalism!
Huh? You're asking who signed the check? Let me look. It's a...'Theter Piel.' No idea who he is. But he sure has ideas!"
I remember my dad driving around listening to Rush Limbaugh in the 90s.
I’ve seen Glenn Beck in person and witnessed the ooze he radiates.
I saw my grandmother who was an ardent liberal (she had busts of FDR and JFK) and who had once supported _Jesse Jackson_ go birther > Trumper.
It’s all mad.
Honestly there’s a lot of story you can wring out of that place that nobody remotely has.
And I’m not just saying that as someone who has shamefully had an active Forums account for over two decades.
And if that's the case, what do we tolerate in the face of it? What's justified and what's not?
That's probably the conversation people should be happening rather than comparing this dead man to someone like MLK. (Don't think I didn't see what you did there, CNN). They're not having it though.
